Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Children's burial ground
Doon (boyle By.), County Roscommon, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Doon (boyle By.)
- County
- Roscommon
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- (Childrens Burial Ground)
- Coordinates
- 53.99841, -8.26771
- SMR number
- RO006-005002-
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The interior of cashel (RO006-005001-) is strewn with stones, but there is a concentration in a triangular area (dims. 8m N-S; 8m E-W) inside the perimeter at S. It was used as a childrens burial ground into the early 20th century (OS Name Books).
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 24 August 2010
References
OSNB - Ordnance Survey Name Books. Pro-forma books arranged by Civil Parish for recording townland and other name-forms and compiled in the course of the OS 6-inch survey 1824-1841. The name books also include minor names and incidental references to antiquities. National Archives of Ireland.
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Cairn - clearance cairnunder 1 mi
- Children's burial groundunder 1 mi
- Shrineunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.